Dawn Erskine

Amazing stuff 👏🤩

I had a male a few years back that started singing in the spring before he departed. I was using the erm bathroom & I could hear a Blackcap singing 😁

They lifted me out of the ' home after a few days of good birding ' doldrums 🤎🖤

A female Blackcap in privet in my garden, 10 months ago.

A male Blackcap in my garden ivy

OMG !! Should I be as excited as I am ??
Just glanced out of my urban window & noticed a female and a male Blackcap! Passing through the Ash & Holly.
Pics are from my garden, of previous over-wintering birds.
The benefits of having unruly privet, holly, and ivy.
100% natural bird feeders 💚 🪶

Sounds wonderful 😌

Last day in London. Brent Res for Jacksnipe or Woods in SE? The latter as the hides at Brent need a key.
A quick scan at the site, I spotted this female Crossbill. Further on, a Firecrest in a tit flock.
Visited St Dunstan, a wild place with a Wren spire & no roof.
Grey Heron grabbed my attention 🪶

It's brilliant watching gulls bathing & loafing 🫶

We are a plague that is capable of so much good

Wow that post took off 🙃

💯 ✊️ And chicken. Bird flu anyone??

Caspian Gull, Eagle Pond, Snaresbrook 01.12.25
First & last time I saw this bird was on 11.01.20
Couldn't believe my luck yesterday, the bird was sat close too waiting for loaf.
White Wag on East Warwick res island, Walthamstow wetlands too 🤍
@birdguides.bsky.social
#GullOfTheDay 🪶
#LondonBirds

Aha! The Kev advent, it doesn't seem like a year since the last one! Looking forward to the rest 🙏

Good choice, BHG 🍟👌
I may pay a visit to what was my first ever Caspian Gull. I saw it in 2020 waiting with a flock of BHGs for kids to chuck bread.
BHGs are a species that give & give, aren't they? I swear that I've only just noticed that sometimes when they call, they do it through a closed bill 🙃

Being a weirdo 😁👍
I very much enjoyed a chuckle with this Scaup yesterday.
I swear he'd found his equivalent to the bit on a dog that makes their leg go.
When he preened his flanks, nothing. But when he preened his belly, he wobbled from side to side 🙃
#DistantDuck

Happy Monday Sprout 💚

Ai, I avoid at all costs. Especially at a time like the present when we need to be consuming less energy. Add -ai to your online searches 👍

Brilliant views of Little Auk today in Scalloway. Nice to see one that looks so healthy. Bird was feeding/preening/diving all within feet of me off the pier. 😎👍 #YellBirding #Shetland

Beautiful female King Eider in Scalloway giving outrageous views this morning. 😍 #YellBirding #Shetland #RareBirdsUK

She's a beaut 🤩👍

In London tomorrow for a gig. Birding before & after naturally.
Visited KG V Reservoir for the first time.
All 4 uncommon/scarce birds seen. Grey Phalarope, BN Grebe & Scaup. Black Redstart made it 50 species for the day.
Well worth the palaver of getting a permit.
#LowCarbonBirding
#LondonBirds 🪶

Beautiful 👌

Very nice phone binning!

2 were very distant, a ♂️ & a ♀️ type. Maybe the bird that came close was the distant female/juvenile.
I should've got a snap of the bird in the clip as it was pretty close. But I'm an excitable idiot and I try to get passersby on the birds too 😅
Same with the Firecrest. So lucky to bump into one!

A lovely peaceful scene ✨️
When encountered in 'real life' too. You've captured it 🥰

A grand day at Titchwell take 3 🎬
70 species, best being a confiding year tick Firecrest (too fast, too close for a snap), a lovely 1w ♂️ Brambling.
2 poss 3 Merlin on the marsh. One blasted through flushing a flock of Wigeon & perched up. 22 Ruff & a smart Water Pipit.
So much to enjoy & learn 🪶

A great find and a good read 👏
I was particularly interested in your blog post about hearing aids, as I think it's something I should go for. I look terrible in hats, tho 👒

Lovely photo 🤩

Will do Amy 😊👍

Titchwell, Friday. I was thrown by this bird having pink legs. Revisited Collins & spotted that leg colour is variable in winter.
The birds/birding gods will smite me for saying it, but this weekend has been great for my birding confidence 🙌
Cheeky Chiffy in the hedges of my urban garden too 2/2

#PatchBirding today. Returning Caspian gull was slumming it on a tern raft, calling & displaying.
Have I noticed Dunnock undertail coverts before? Goosander roost 50+

Still watching clips of a lovely round bellied Pipit from Friday & finally decided that it is a Water Pipit 1/2
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶